Patients who have given written informed consent before initiating any specific study screening procedure.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who have received previously chemotherapy or radiotherapy for the study disease.

Impossibility of complying with chemotherapy treatment due to cultural or geographic circumstances.

Patients with active infection, heart disease, or any other serious disease, in the judgment of the investigator.

Women who are pregnant or in the period of lactation.

Patients with a previous diagnosis of malignant disease in the last five years except for carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix or skin cancer other than melanoma.

Patients under treatment with investigational agents.

Contacts and Locations

Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.
For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00478699